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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, congest, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog, inundate, jade, load, make a pig of, overfeed, overload, overstock, overwhelm, pack*, pall, raven, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | blimp out, bolt*, cloy, congest, cram, devour, eat like a horse, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, hoover, jade, jam, make a pig of, overeat, overindulge, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- All began to cloy well before the conclusion of this egregiously long.
- There's a bit of spice in there that keeps the cloy level down.
- The technique is highly skilled, but the matter begins to cloy.
| Main Entry: | pall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bore, tire |
| Synonyms: | become dull, become tedious, cloy, disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, sate, satiate, sicken, surfeit, weary |
| Antonyms: | brighten, excite, make happy |
| Main Entry: | satiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stuff, satisfy completely or excessively |
| Synonyms: | cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
| Main Entry: | satisfy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | please, content |
| Synonyms: | amuse, animate, appease, assuage, befriend, brighten up, captivate, capture, cheer, cloy, comfort, conciliate, delight, do the trick, elate, enliven, entertain, enthrall, exhilarate, fascinate, fill, fill the bill, flatter, get by, gladden, glut, gorge, gratify, hit the spot, humor, indulge, make merry, make the grade, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quench, rejoice, sate, satiate, score, sell, sell on, slake, suit, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | anger, disappoint, discontent, dissatisfy, upset |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | cloy, cram, eat, fill, glut, gorge, jade, overfeed, overindulge, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, stuff |
| Antonyms: | deplete, use up |
| Main Entry: | weary |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make tired |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bore, burden, cause ennui, cloy, debilitate, depress, disgust, dishearten, distress, drain, droop, drowse, enervate, enfeeble, exasperate, exhaust, fade, fag, fail, fall off, fatigue, flag, glut, grow tired, harass, have had enough, irk, jade, leave one cold, lose interest, make discontented, nauseate, oppress, overwork, pain, plague, sap, sicken, sink, strain, take it out of, tax, tire, tire out, try the patience of, tucker out, vex, weaken, wear down, wear out, weigh |
| Antonyms: | activate, energize, enliven |
| Main Entry: | sate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy |
| Synonyms: | cloy, glut, gorge, gratify, overfill, satiate, stuff, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, starve |
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